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AstrologyCongratulations, your emotions are stable and you are able to wait out a slow-moving situation. This is a great time to engage in renovation and beautification projects. Spiff things up! Material objects are excellent, and encouragement comes from things you can see and touch. Good shopping! Medical issues are well resolved, and work is motoring [...]  The First Object of RefugeThe following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “Essence of Devotion” Although the Buddha that we remember as Siddhartha, Gautama Buddha, Shakyamuni is not present in his physical body as we understand it right now, we look at the Lama as the embodiment of the qualities, intentions, compassion and [...] AstrologyAn important message, letter or communication happens today. It’s most crucial to speak in a kind, diplomatic manner. Angry or demanding speech harms your cause and you will be ignored, or worse. The urge to “tell people off” is strong today, as is the wish to push others who aren’t responding the way you would [...]  Right SpeechAn excerpt from a teaching called The Eightfold Path by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo Right speech is the first principal of ethical conduct on the Eightfold Path. And on the Eightfold Path is really based on ethical conduct. It’s one of the things that I like best about Buddhism. It isn’t based on a pie-in-the-sky [...] |
An excerpt from a teaching called Compassion, Love, & Wisdom by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo One of the techniques commonly practiced on the Vajrayana path is generating oneself as the Deity. When generating as the Deity one actually arises in a pure form, a form that is free of desire, a pure and fully enlightened [...] An excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo from the Vow of Love series As long as the idea of self exists, self will experience other with either attraction, or repulsion. There is no other way to experience other. Whether it’s subtle or not, even if you are a proponent of New Age philosophy, [...] Guru Rinpoche Here are some online practice supports for Dharma students @ahkonlhamo – Musings and tweachings by Jetsunma @kunzangpalyul – Kunzang Palyul Choling updates on practices, events, and other news @palyulmedia – Updates about webcast teachings and teachings available at palyulproductions.org @kpcstore – updates on [...] Buddha Amitaba Downloadable Image I’d like to address the very newest Dharma practitioners, and offer the #METHOD I speak so often and so fondly of. All can benefit. Many are interested in Buddhism, read and think about it, enjoy it’s thoughtfulness. But the main point of Dharma is accomplishment. One can be a friend of [...] The following teaching is from a series of tweets by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo: Happiness is a habit to be cultivated from within. Our minds are habitual but like a rider on a horse you must direct it. Like a gardener we must cultivate good qualities. Why follow anyone with poor habits and bad qualities? [...] Dear Dharma Friends, I am delighted to introduce this new site, Tibetan Buddhist Altar. It is my hope that it will offer those who are traveling, those who are home bound, those in hospital or ill a way to stay connected to the Buddhist Sangha. One can always establish a sacred space, anywhere. In [...] |
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